GARBER, Milton Cline, a Representative from Oklahoma; born in Humboldt, Calif., November
30, 1867; was reared on a farm in Iowa; attended the common schools, Upper Iowa
University at Fayette 1887-1890, and the law department of the University of
Iowa at Iowa City 1891-1893; settled in Oklahoma upon the opening of the
Cherokee Strip; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and commenced the practice of
law in Guthrie, Okla.; in company with his father and brother founded the town
of Garber in 1893 and opened up the Garber oil fields; appointed probate judge
of Garfield County in 1902 and subsequently elected in 1904; appointed
associate justice of the supreme court of the Territory of Oklahoma and trial
judge of the fifth judicial district in 1906, serving in these capacities until
Oklahoma became a State; elected judge of the twentieth judicial district in
1908 and served until 1912, when he resigned; resumed the practice of law;
mayor of Enid, Okla., 1919-1921; engaged in the newspaper business and in
agricultural pursuits; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the
four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress; died in
Alexandria, Minn., September 12, 1948; interment in Memorial Park Cemetery,
Enid, Okla.